Training shoe snobbery

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[QUOTE 3586369, member: 76"]You deserve to be mocked for wearing training shoes when not training.

If you were shopping or attending a dental appointment you should wear appropriate footwear, a nice brogue or possibly a pair of less formal shoes if it was the weekend, and at an absolute push to the limits of acceptability an 'approach shoe', but in those, to be honest, you should be walking and not on the bus.[/QUOTE]

I rarely wear shirts trousers jeans jumpers and jackets leather shoes etc. Most of it is to do with how i see myself in a mirror. Because i'm thin/slim i see myself as i was when i was a skinny teen in the 1970's. Those horrible images of me wearing flared jeans and big collared shirts have stuck in my mind. If i wear shirts and trousers(especially lose fitting ones) i see a skinny wimp,if i wear sporty clothes i see an athletic type in the mirror.
 

Mad Doug Biker

Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
Location
Craggy Island
What an eye opening thread ! I do my best to ignore youths in the street, I don't give a monkey's what they think about what I'm wearing, or what they think about anything in fact. I find it amazing that anyone over the age of 16 would take any notice of them and even more amazing that they would speak to them about their comments. And I don't wear trainers in any case :smile:

I know, and get all the fashion victims here too, dissin' my Crocs too, pah, the cheek of it!! :laugh:
 

AndyRM

XOXO
Location
North Shields
Why couldn't you just have said that last night!! :whistle:

I was watching Chappie, having some pints and rescuing a Ukrainian tramp on the Metro. An eventful evening.

Reading the thread back I see folk are rating those 5finger examples of hideousness. They should also be shot. Whoever supposed that our toes were to be suffocated by tiny condoms wants a word with themselves.
 

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
I haven't given a to$$ about 'trainers' for so many years now ... however, I can remember when young that 'it' was quite impt (not nec trainers, but make of troozaz, or shoes, r shirts etc, at various times). Regarding trainers, I simply wear brown ones from M&S, kind of 'walking shoe' style. Have done for years.
A friend who is only a few years younger than me is still a bit of a 'fashion victim' and will happily spend £150 on trainers. And insist on listening only to radio 1. He's way outside their demographic, and one day he might realise that radio2 actually plays the music he claims to like best... :okay:
 

Mad Doug Biker

Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
Location
Craggy Island
I haven't given a to$$ about 'trainers' for so many years now ... however, I can remember when young that 'it' was quite impt (not nec trainers, but make of troozaz, or shoes, r shirts etc, at various times). Regarding trainers, I simply wear brown ones from M&S, kind of 'walking shoe' style. Have done for years.
A friend who is only a few years younger than me is still a bit of a 'fashion victim' and will happily spend £150 on trainers. And insist on listening only to radio 1. He's way outside their demographic, and one day he might realise that radio2 actually plays the music he claims to like best... :okay:

I'm no fashion victim, but I much prefer 6 Music
 
I rarely wear shirts trousers jeans jumpers and jackets leather shoes etc. Most of it is to do with how i see myself in a mirror. Because i'm thin/slim i see myself as i was when i was a skinny teen in the 1970's. Those horrible images of me wearing flared jeans and big collared shirts have stuck in my mind. If i wear shirts and trousers(especially lose fitting ones) i see a skinny wimp,if i wear sporty clothes i see an athletic type in the mirror.
What do you actually wear then? Toga? Bearskin? Leotard?

Hang on. It's lycra isn't it? Never go anywhere unless dressed in full team kit.
(Bit jealous here, wish I was slim enough to look good in lycra)
 
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